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A Manchester-based company is moving graphene devices closer to commercial production using a technique known as chemical vapour deposition (CVD).
The spin-out company from the University of Manchester, 2-DTech is producing polycrystalline graphene films, the base substrate for semiconductor devices, with commercially competitive defect density and high…

Research is getting closer to creating clothes and shoes which will self-generate energy to power wearable mobile devices.
A report in the journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS Nano) describes a foldable nanopatterned material which can use human motion to generate energy. Energy is then stored in a…

Health sensors could one day be 3D-printed in graphene according to researchers at Imperial College, London.
The team at Imperial has developed a method for printing miniature components from graphene, using a new graphene paste.
Graphene is the new light and flexible semiconductor material first identified at the University…

Graphene has yet to move out of the research lab, but 2015 could be the year we see the first devices using the “new” semiconductor material.
Imec has developed the industry’s first integrated graphene optical electro-absorption modulator (EAM) capable of 10Gbit/s modulation speed with a very low…

Graphene NanoChem, the Malaysia-based graphene company, has announced a product development agreement with Sync R&D for graphene-enhanced lithium-ion batteries for use in electric buses
As part of the Electric Bus 1 Malaysia programme, the Graphene NanoChem and Sync R&D will jointly develop a…

Research into colour display technology, which can be finely tuned, could provide clues about developing camouflaging metamaterials that can “see” colours and automatically blend into the background, as seen in nature with animals like squids.
Scientists at Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) in Houston, Texas set out in…